We've talked previously about the Windows Azure command-line tools , and have used them in a few posts such as Brian's Migrating Drupal to a Windows Azure VM . While the tools are generally useful for tons of stuff, one of the things that's been painful...

As a follow up to an earlier post , I'm walking through the Windows Azure Mobile Services Tutorials to add in the iOS client version of handling data validation. We're not doing this in the client application (yet); instead, this tutorial, which will...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post that suggested you use app settings in Windows Azure Web Sites to store your database connection information. This approach allowed you to access database connection information as environment variables in PHP and Node...

It's a late 'Friday' post again; my apologies. It's been a bit hectic leading up to the end of October. Here's the links we saved for you this week:
The Cloud and the Whiteboard (VIDEO): Cory Fowler "demystifies Windows Azure using nothing other...

Yesterday, Scott Guthrie blogged about the new iOS client SDK and feature set for Mobile Services.
I'd like to bring several great bits of documentation together so that if you're interested in seeing the different ways you can use non-Microsoft platforms...

This is just a short post about how to get error information for PHP sites running in Windows Azure Web Sites . We all want to know when something goes wrong, and better yet, we want to know why something goes wrong. Hopefully, the information here will...

Hope for good reading weather this weekend, because our reading list this week has lots to choose from. Enjoy (and, as always, learn)…
Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk : "Going open source can be a scary proposition, but it can also bear...

A few weeks ago, Larry and I wrote a couple of post about how to set up co-located caching using Windows Azure Caching (Preview) and access it from Ruby and PHP: Windows Azure Caching (Preview) and Ruby Cloud Services and PHP, Memcache, and Windows Azure...

Welcome back to the end of the week! Just a handful of links this week, hope you find them useful.
Part 1 of 5: Introduction to Consuming Azure Mobile Services from iOS : Part 1 of a series by Bruno Turkaly about how to use Windows Azure Mobile...

I've been researching how to troubleshoot Node.js applications hosted on Windows Azure recently, and while I'm don't have a complete story yet I wanted to share what I do have. So here's a brain dump of diagnostics information that Node.js developers...

As you’ll see from this week’s links, Windows Azure and supporting (or at least related) projects continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Hopefully, these weekly reading lists will help in staying on top of it all…
Windows Azure Interactive...

This is a guest post by Sriram Rao , Principal Scientist Lead in the Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL) at Microsoft. His current research interests are in building storage and compute infrastructure for processing big data. Some of the results...

This post is really just a Pro Tip: Use app settings in Windows Azure Web Sites to store your database connection information. A question on Stackoverflow the other day made me realize that using app settings in Windows Azure Web Sites to store database...

Oops, I didn't get these posted on Friday, so today will have to do. Friday was super busy and the weekend passed in a blur. I just remembered I hadn't posted these a moment ago. Better late than never I suppose. Here's some links for your Monday morning...

This past weekend, the Windows Azure Web Sites team released several great improvements. For an overview of everything that was released, I suggest reading Scott Guthrie ’s blog post on the subject: Announcing: Great Improvements in Windows Azure...

Last Friday, Windows Azure added support for continuous deployment from GitHub and CodePlex repositories to Windows Azure Web Sites. Continuous deployment notifies Windows Azure when updates are made to a Git repository on GitHub or CodePlex, and Windows...

I’m happy to announce that with the most recent update to Windows Azure Web Sites , you can now easily enable custom PHP extensions. If you have read any of my previous posts on how to configure PHP in Windows Azure Web Sites ( Windows Azure Web...

This week’s motto is “better late than never, and better something than nothing.” Yes, this week’s reading list is somewhat late and somewhat short (we’ll chalk that up to being busy), but it is not short on quality. May you learn something: Connecting...

It's Friday again, I hope you're all enjoying the last few weeks of summer before we head into the cooler fall weather (at least here in the northern hemisphere.) It's still relatively hot here in North Carolina, though the nights are getting cooler....

Here in the Seattle area it already feels like autumn is in the air…and it’s not even September yet. Oh well, short summers are a way of life here (but they are good summers!). No matter, I’ve had plenty of good reading to keep me occupied…hope...

If the amount of sleep one gets at a conference is inversely proportional to how good the conference is, then DrupalCon Munich was a huge success for me. I’m back home now, still catching up on sleep, and I’ve had a chance to reflect on the conference...

It's Brian's turn to be on vacation today, but I get the last laugh; I'm on vacation again next week. :)
Here are my links for your Friday reading. If there's anything else interesting going on in the cloud/OSS space, let us know.
Node 0.8...

I am happy to announce that the Windows Azure team has added cloud services support to the ServiceManagement API in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP . A few weeks ago I wrote a post ( Service Management with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP ) that outlined...

Last week, as part of my preparation for DrupalCon Munich , I investigated how to migrate a simple Drupal website to Windows Azure Websites . While Windows Azure Websites makes it easy to get a website up and running quickly and is great for many applications...

Larry is on vacation this week, so my reading list will have to suffice for this week (and it has some good stuff, if I do say so myself ). If you’ve got interesting Azure/OSS-related links, let us know in the comments. Comparing Service Bus for Windows...